Disclaimer: I do not own Card Captor Sakura.


The building was big. Really, really big. Sakura's wide eyes stared up at the clear, shining windows and she took a deep breath in. Well, this was it: her new place of work. She walked into the building, passed a few security measures, and proceeded to her right where the elevator was. People were milling about but the atmosphere was comfortable. She liked it so far. The elevator dinged and she stepped out, prepared to meet her boss.

Well, somewhat prepared anyways.

Coming across the door that had his name, she knocked and walked in. The room was quite spacious and decorated comfortably with waiting chairs on the side and a secretary's desk in the middle. There was another wooden door on the left side of the room that led to Mr. Li's personal office. She walked there and knocked. Loud boisterous noises were coming from the inside and it seemed to come from a bunch of raucous males. She knocked louder, thinking that they didn't hear.

"Come in," someone said.

Sakura stepped in and her eyes saw chaos.

The desk in the middle of the room was extremely messy; it was even worse than Eriol's and the worst thing was that it wasn't littered with papers but with food wrappers, garbage, videos, and where those magazines? There were dried soda stains and popped balloons on the pretty, light brown, almost white, wooden floor. She was sure that her boss was supposed to be preparing for the meeting he had in, she peeked at her watch, ten minutes, so what was he doing?

"Come here babe," said a blonde man.

Sakura was flabbergasted. Five grown men were sitting around what was supposed to be Mr. Li's desk and were playing… poker?

"Uh, I'm looking for Mr. Li?"

"Syaoran, you always get all of the girls," complained the blonde man.

The man with the messy brown hair spoke. "It's not my fault I'm filthy rich and sexy." He gave Sakura a seductive smile and asked her, "Isn't that right?"

Oh man. Sakura backed out of the room calmly, but quickly, her mind logically thinking. Was this some kind of prank or was that man sitting there truly Syaoran Li? Despite the impractical hope she had that it was a prank, her mind was telling her that her boss was in that room and that this was the reason why Mrs. Li needed her to 'fix' his attitude towards work. She walked back into the hall and gave a call to her boss's personal cell phone number.

"Hello? Mrs. Li? This is Sakura Kinomoto."

"Hello Ms. Kinomoto."

"I'm really sorry for the inconvenience. It's just that…"

"You've met my son."

"Yes."

"What was he doing this time?"

"I think that he was having a mini party in his office." She paused. "How would you like me to deal with the situation?"

"I'm giving you the freedom to do whatever you need to do. I've already notified the staff of your position, and although Syaoran is technically your boss, you are allowed to order him and throw anyone unscrupulous out of his office. You cannot be fired by him. I'd recommend putting the security number on speed dial too."

"Thank you for the advice."

"I know my son's problematic but I hope that you will stick with him for a while. He's not a cruel man."

"I'll do my best. Goodbye."

"Goodbye, and please feel free to call me when you need to."

"Thank you." Sakura took another deep breath in and straightened her posture. She knocked on his office door again and opened it. "Mr. Li, I am Sakura Kinomoto, your new secretary."

He raised his eyebrow. "I wasn't aware I got a new one."

One of the men around him nudged him. "She seems pretty cute. I wouldn't be complaining."

Sakura interrupted. "Mr. Li, you have a meeting in about five minutes."

"It's too bad that I'm not going, isn't it?" He gave her an infuriating smirk.

She ignored his comment for the time being. "Parties are not allowed during work hours. I'll have to ask everyone here to leave."

No one moved. The blonde man spoke. "Aww come on. Join us. Don't worry about work. I'll make sure you'll have a good time."

With perfect timing, three security guards walked up behind her. "Alright boys," said one of the larger guards. "It's work hours. Everyone out."

No one shifted.

Sakura grew irritated. "Alright, that's it! Everyone out right now and I mean it!" Her loud voice projected across the room and they looked at her in surprise. "If you guys want to go party, go somewhere else. This is a company and if the guards have to forcefully drag you out of the building and throw you onto the floor outside, so be it."

One of the men whistled. Sakura glared at the man and he raised his hands in surrender. "Got it, got it. We'll leave. Are you coming Syaoran?"

"Of course. Bye Miss Secretary," he said as he walked towards the door. As the security guards led the group outside, Sakura gripped onto Syaoran's wrist.

"Oh no you don't," she said. "You're currently on shift and you are not leaving until you have finished your work."

He chuckled in amusement. "Just who's the boss here? Me, or you?" He looked at his wrist. "Are you letting go?"

"No. Not unless you decide to go to the meeting."

He brought his wrist up to his head and slowly ran his tongue across her hand, causing her to let go quickly.

"Just what do you think—"

He walked away and closed the door. Sakura groaned at how awful her first day of work went. Although Yelan had warned her that her son wouldn't be very cooperative, she didn't think that he would be that bad. Looking at the messy room, she decided that she would call the custodians first. And then she would get herself situated, and then… Well, she'd have to figure how to begin to make him do his work.


On the second day of that week, he had invited his friends into his office again. She banned them from entering. On the third day, he skipped an important meeting with the CEO of the Liu Company. Despite how hard Sakura tried to drag him there, she had to admit that she was much smaller than he was, and wasn't really able to budge him for more than a couple of steps. The fourth day, he had refused to write the contracts that he had procrastinated on, causing Lindy to pull an all-nighter to do it for him. The woman was exhausted when she was done and had felt horribly guilty for breaking her promise to see her daughter's dance recital. That was the day that Sakura became extremely angry at his irresponsibility. When the fifth day came, she began plotting. And on the sixth day that he entered his office, she was prepared to confront him.

"Mr. Li."

"Ms. Kinomoto," he acknowledged.

"I'm not too happy with you."

His lips tilted upwards in amusement at her unexpected and blunt comment. "Oh?"

"You've been late to work every single morning and have only attended one meeting and even showed up twenty minutes late to it. You've done less than twenty percent of the paperwork given to you and you run off in the middle of the day. You have no respect for the company whatsoever and you don't seem to care about the trouble you cause others."

"Then fire me if I'm such a bad worker."

Her eyes narrowed. "You know that I have no power to fire you but I'm warning you today that unless you finish all your paperwork, you are not stepping outside of this building."

"I acknowledge that you have somehow convinced the security guards to be on your side and that I can't even bribe them to do my bidding or listen to me anymore. You forget though, that I'm still the heir of the Li Company and that you have no power to prevent me from leaving the building." He smirked. "I find you kind of interesting, Sakura Kinomoto. Your attempts to make me work these last few days have provided me with much entertainment."

Sakura refused to comment and Syaoran went back to his office.

An hour passed. And then another hour passed. And soon, it was noon and Syaoran Li stepped outside of his office to go to lunch. Sakura watched him as he walked towards the door that led to the hallways. He reached for the doorknob and twisted; it didn't budge. Confused, the man tried again but when he realized that he wasn't succeeding, he took his keys out of his pocket and pushed one in. They key wouldn't turn either. He pulled the key out and made sure that it was the right one. It was. Puzzled, he tried it again. He did not succeed. He turned back to his secretary. "The door's jammed."

She looked up from typing. "Oh that's too bad isn't it? I guess you'll have to skip lunch and spend time on paperwork instead."

"You changed the locks."

"That I did."

He slipped his keys back into his pocket. "This might work today but it won't work in the long run. You'll have to eventually give me the keys to open the office door; otherwise I won't be able to get into my office to work."

"It's specifically engineered by a dear friend of mine. The key that you just used will open the door from the outside. Only your mother, the head security guard, and I have the key that will allow you to unlock in from the inside. I recommend finishing the paperwork as I don't plan on letting you out until you complete them."

He smirked. "I guess I've underestimated you." Syaoran walked back into his office, a little shocked, but very amused at the length she went to force him to do his work. No one had ever attempted to lock him in the building before. However, she had underestimated him. Eventually, she would have to leave the building and all he had to do was follow her when the time came. He sat back in his chair and relaxed.

At three that afternoon, his stomach began growling.

At six that day, he was starving. He walked back into his secretary's office and found her eating pretzels.

"I'm starving," he told her.

"Tough luck," she replied without looking away from her computer.

"Do you really plan on locking me in here until I finish the paperwork?"

Sakura turned to face him. "I'm prepared to spend a whole week locked in here with you and no one, including your mother and the head security guard, is planning to stop me."

As much as he wanted to see whether or not she would actually spend a whole week in the office with him, he was pretty sure that he didn't want to last a week without food. Admitting defeat, he headed back into his office to do the paperwork.

Meanwhile, Sakura had a large silly grin on her face due to her first success.


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